Afghanistan. One doesnt listen to the other. No one has ever been able to tame afghanistan. Why do we think we can tame it . There are things we can do there with covert actions, drones, pet. I have no problem with that. To send our troops over there to get killed and not change anything, not so great. Host dr. Ben carsons book came out in 1990 followed by think big came out in 2000. Take the risk 2008, american the beautiful 2011. And theres a new book on the way. For the last three hours we have been talking with dr. Ben weve got more coverage of nonfiction books and the book industry every weekend on booktv, including in depth, live every month. A threehour look at one authors body of work with your question. Over the next few months, ben shapiro. October 6th, civil rights leader and democratic congressman from georgia, john lewis. And november 3rd, biographer kitty kelley. Along with our schedule, you can also see our programs anytime at booktv. Org and get the latest updates throu
You want to see the films. All that and much more on cbs this morning saturday, january 18th, 2014. Captioning funded by cbs and welcome to the weekend. We also have some great guests for you this morning, including a singer with a voice as big as her band sharon jones and the dap kings. And a hockey playing chef whos responsible for the gastrorevolution. First breaking news about an attack in afghanistan. Were learning at least two americans were among those killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a restaurant in kabul. Charlie dagata is following the developments of yesterdays attack. Charlie, good morning. Good morning to you, anthony and vinita. We got that warning yesterday. At least two citizens died. We have learned they were from the American University in afghanistan. Here the Foreign Office said two british nationals are among the dead in one of the worst attacks against foreign civilians since the start of the war. They struck the popular lebanese restaurant on
Thank you to the forum for hosting us and all you for coming in all. I am the editor and we are the prod publishers of vijay new book the poorer nations i will briefly introduce him he will talk about his book for a bit. Then we have q a i will kick off with a few questions and we will turn over to you. Were hoping to wait for the microphone to get you since it will play on booktv on the cspan in the future. I get the feeling that a lot of people here know vijay but for those who dont just tell little bio of 39. He is a chair at the American University of beirut and formally for a long time that george did martha tear of south Asian Studies and the director of International Studies at the Kennedy College in connecticut. Are you going back to trinity . The author of more than one dozen but long dash books if you count those the only available in india. This year he published two books one we will not talk about but it is worth checking out called uncle swami called. It is about of south
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